Russian Constitution of 1906

The Russian Constitution of 1906 was a major revision of the 1832 Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire, and it changed an absolutist state into one in which the emperor agreed for the first time to share power with a parliament. It was enacted on 6 May 1906 (23 April in the old style calendar), on the eve of the opening of the first State Duma, and was granted during the Revolution of 1905 in a last effort to preserve the imperial government. It created a bicameral parliament of a State Council and a State Duma, without whose approval no law could pass. The Tsar kept an absolute veto, control over ministers, and the right to dismiss the Duma, and Nicholas II resented the limits it placed on him. The Duma later helped bring about his abdication in 1917.